Bahamas Mini Guide
Freeport City Lucaya today is the largest single resort complex in the West Indies, with luxury hotels, casinos, villas, fine beaches and even a fanciful International Bazaar, which comprises 4 hectares (10 acres) of shops and restaurants reproducing settings from all over the world - an English pub, a Parisian cafe and a setting from Thailand, for example. There is also a deepwater harbour with a number of industrial enterprises set round it, including a cement works, a pharmaceutical plant, a major oil refinery and oil transhipment terminals.

On INAGUA, the southernmost inhabited island, there is one of the world's largest complexes for producing salt by solar evaporation. A plant on New Providence processes frozen lobster tail for export to the USA, and the government is encouraging agriculture on a number of islands, especially Andros, to make the country more self-sufficient in food. At the same time, Bahamian laws, which exempt individuals and corporations from income and inheritance taxes, have attracted more than 360 banks and trust companies to the country. Nassau is a Eurodollar trading centre that compares with London. Car Hire Nassau available.

The main centres in the Bahamas are New Providence and Grand Bahama, which have been developed for tourism and business, but life on many of the other islands, known as the Family or Out Islands has been little affected by the changes of recent years.
Off ELEUTHERA, for example, to the east of New Providence, is the little island of Spanish Wells. Its white inhabitants are the descendants of the first Puritan settlers and have managed to retain their separate identity for nearly 300 years.
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